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I think another point I should make is that the state government has little to no involvement in these corporations. While it may have been organized by the state, it is not run by the state except for some regulations i.e. the ban on trading or selling shares.

All fair points. It definitely is an attempt to incorporate non-capitalist native communities into markets. At the same time though, I believe it was a necessity.

The majority of natives in Alaska practice subsistence living ie fishing, hunting, gardening in lieu of wage labor. This is fine until services such as healthcare are needed. Ideally, the United States healthcare system would be universal and not a market. Unfortunately this isn't the case.

I believe that the Native Corporations are essentially a medium to interact with capitalist markets for necessary goods and services. So in the normative sense, the native culture would be preserved while still having access to services that they cannot provide or make for themselves. This really isn't the case though.

Natives feel the pressures of a capitalist society mostly because they can't barter. You can't trade hand-crafted goods or salmon for diapers for example. Cultural erasure is a big deal. What makes it worse though is that some of these corporations are complicit in it. Check out the Donlin gold mine project in Bethel, AK. A couple of Native Corporations are trying to push it through despite there being no real tangible benefits to the native population, while thy assume all the risk of an environmental disaster.

So another interesting thing is that shareholders are each given a set amount at birth, but they can also be passed down from families. I think the idea is that the more strongly rooted your family is in the tribe, the more say you have. Rather interesting.

Politics aside, Bioware just isn't what they used to be. Mass Effect 3 and Inquisition were mediocre at best, and stripped away the best parts of their IPs. I'll just wait for Andromeda to hit the bargain bin.